Digital humanities – Steven Lubar

Vibe-coding for local history

Steven Lubar / February 20, 2026

AI makes it possible to write interesting and useful programs even if you don’t know how to code. Describe what

Steven Lubar / January 3, 2026

An experiment to take the Historic American Engineering Record’s 1978 RHODE ISLAND Inventory of Historic Engineering and Industrial Sites and

CDS celebrated its 30th anniversary with a symposium and party. Here’s the remarks I gave. Thanks to Ashley Champagne and

Steven Lubar / February 16, 2024

AI everything! For a month! That’s one way to describe the talk I gave for Brown’s AI and Humanities Research

Steven Lubar / December 7, 2020

Two more short videos prepared for my “Methods in Public Humanities” course. These address museum collections, one on registration and

How best to make journal articles accessible? Over the years, I’ve published a few dozen essays, in a range of

I’m pleased to announce a new timeline of museum history. The timeline starts in the 17th century, with the 1628

A four part series on Medium, “Cataloging History,” on the history and practice of museum catalogs, focusing on the publications of

As I research my book on museums I tweet some of my sources. Gathering them here for your museum-history pleasure.

Steven Lubar / September 27, 2015

For a search engine to work well, it needs to know where to look. The streetlight effect offers a